Yoga as Medicine I (Module 8)

Module 8 is the first of three on-site modules that make up the practical, applied lab portion of the PYT certification program. This course puts the lectures of Modules 1-7 into motion with application of the concepts learned in those pre-requisite distance modules.

Description

Module 8 is the first of three on-site intensives which allow the students to assimilate and apply all objectives learned from Modules 1-7. Module 8 allows students to critically evaluate and practice the following objectives, learned in an interactive post-graduate lab format with their peers.

Clinical Objectives

Apply the 15 MTY precepts to your clinical demographic and practice in order to increase clinical efficacy and safety of yoga prescription.

Verbalize indications for practicing 86 yoga postures in MTY.

Demonstrate multidisciplinary knowledge of contraindications for practicing the postures.

Critically analyze 86 yoga pre-postures and postures and their numerous modifications using blankets, blocks, straps, and other props using the MTY method.

Integrate 11 breathing principles using the BPS model for postural sequencing through functional application of the 7 principles of physiology and the 4 biomechanical principles.

Prescribe at least 2 modifications for each posture practiced to make yoga postures useable for all patient and/or wellness based population.

Demonstrate comprehension of the foundational rules of sequence prescription.

Verbalize how neural mobilization can be safely performed within PYT aligned pre-yoga postures.

Identify how myofascial and neurovascular restriction can be addressed through the practice of medical therapeutic yoga.

Using current research, verbalize the importance of using the 4 biomechanical properties in yoga posture analysis.

Utilizing current science, apply the 7 prerequisites for stabilization to standing postures aligned in the PYT method.

Demonstrate two PYT blanket folding techniques for modification of seated, supine, and prone postures in order to improve patient outcomes.

Apply the 15 PYT precepts to 86 yoga postures in order to understand the foundations for the PYT evaluative and therapeutic algorithm.

Verbalize the importance of yoga practice timing and its effects on the physical, energetic, intellectual, spiritual, and psyco-emotional facets of the mind and body.

Experience 6 different 60 minute yoga practice sequences in order to understand PYT prescription and rationale.

Describe how the role of the eight limbed practice, the five obstructions, and individual constitutional analysis determines medical therapeutic yoga prescription in persons with complex medical histories.

List three different methods, including legal documentation requirements, for implementing business models for free-standing or integrated organizational medical therapeutic yoga practices.

Understand coding and billing impact practices for medical therapeutic yoga in the PYT method as it applies to licensed health care professionals.

Course Includes

Tuition includes a digital course manual. Lodging is extra and includes three meals a day.

The digital course manual contains excerpts from the Professional Yoga Therapy Volume I and II E-Books which provide approximately 350 photographic illustrations, foundational breath and postures for sequencing, guidelines to practice, manual cuing, therapeutic teaching, and organizational tools. Volume II is the second level and counterpose companion to Volume I. The PYT Volume I and II E-Books correspond to distance learning Modules 1 through 7.

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